The translocator protein acts as a marker for the activity of glial cells. Images combining PET and MRI scans showed that healthy people had less translocator protein in their brains than did people with chronic back pain (SN Online: 1/13/lS). Imaging pain's molecular anatomy: brain scans ...
(redirected fromOligodendroglial cells) Thesaurus Medical Encyclopedia ol·i·go·den·dro·cyte (ŏl′ĭ-gō-dĕn′drə-sīt′, ō′lĭ-) n. Any of the neuroglial cells of the central nervous system that are responsible for the formation of myelin sheaths in the white matter and ...
Nikolai Bogduk, in Anatomy and Human Movement (Second Edition), 1994 Glial cells Nerve cells are not the only constituents of the central nervous system. Dispersed between the nerve cells are several types of cells referred to collectively as glial cells (glia: Latin, meaning glue) for their ...
Neuron-supporting glial cells display a considerable variability in phenotype and function. The first part of the chapter describes general principles of glial cell phenotype and distribution including evolution of glia-mediated neuronal support, glial morphology according to the types of cell processes, ...
1.A thin, flexible layer of tissue that covers, lines, separates, or connects cells or parts of an organism. Seecell membrane. 2.ChemistryA thin sheet of natural or synthetic material that is permeable to substances in solution. The American Heritage® Student Science Dictionary, Second Editio...
and glial cell complexity seems to support the idea that the earliest neurons did not need glial cells [6]. This led to a general definition of glia cells as “homeostatic cells of the nervous system” [6]. According to this definition, glial cells exist as housekeeping cells, whereas neuro...
5.1 Oligodendrocyte anatomy 247 5.2 Myelin structure and function 252 5.3 Physiology of oligodendrocytes 266 5.4 Oligodendrocyte development 283 5.5 Concluding remarks 299 References 299 6 NG2-glial Cells 321 6.1 Definition of NG2-glia 321 6.2 Structure of NG2-glia 324 ...
Axon-glial signaling;Computational glioscience;Microglia modeling;Neuron-glial interaction modeling;Synapse-astrocyte bidirectional signaling Definition Dependence of neuronal function on glial cells and vice versa, which consists of the interplay of potentially multiple signals that can be both of neuronal ...
processes continues to be scarce. Here, we review foundational and current evidence on timing precision and cooperative neuronal electrical activity driving STDP and brain rhythms, their interactions, and the emerging role of glial cells in such processes. We also provide an overview of their ...
(UMNs), or cortical motor neurons, are larger pyramidal cells located within the fifth layer in the primary motor cortex, and are anatomically and functionally different from other neurons. Due to their unique molecular basis of cell-intrinsic pathways, they exhibit an increased likelihood to fire...